Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 1998-02-02,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information...
> see my 2020-06-23 companion posting on "Reposted Questions from
> the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
> I wrote one of these rounds.
The easy one -- the entertainment round.
> * Game 2, Round 7 - Literature - Jewish writers
> 1. Her books include "The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories" (1971),
> "The Messiah of Stockholm" (1987), and "The Shawl" (1989).
> Her work has appeared in the New Yorker: """most recently""", a piece
> about Anne Frank in 1997. """Her latest book is""" "The Puttermesser
> Papers" (1997). Name her.
Cynthia Ozick. (Her current latest book is "Antiquities", published
this year.)
> 2. This Italian Jewish writer is best known for the books "If This
> is a Man" (also titled "Survival in Auschwitz") and "The
> Periodic Table", a memoir of his experiences as a chemist.
> He died in 1987.
Primo Levi. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 3. Science fiction has had its share of Jewish writers. Name this
> prolific and beloved writer, a Russian-born American who died
> in 1992.
Isaac Asimov. 4 for everyone -- Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland,
and Dan Tilque.
> 4. He is one of the grand old men of Canadian poetry, and many of
> his poems deal with the Jewish-Canadian experience. Born in
> Romania in 1912, he taught literature at York University from
> 1970 to 1978.
Irving Layton.
> 5. Philip Roth is best known for his comic novel "Portnoy's
> Complaint". His first book -- a collection of short stories --
> also received a great deal of positive attention when it was
> published in 1959. What is it called?
"Goodbye Columbus". 4 for Joshua.
> 6. And what is the title of Mordecai Richler's first novel, published
> in 1954?
"The Acrobats".
> 7. Born in 1909 in what is """now""" Ukraine, this Montreal-based poet
> practiced law, and was the author of such books as "Hath Not a
> Jew..." (1940), "The Hitleriad" (1944), and "The Second Scroll"
> (1951).
A.M. Klein. (Ratno is still in Ukraine.)
> 8. Another prolific Jewish science fiction writer, his works include
> "Dying Inside" (1972) and the Majipoor series, which began with
> "Lord Valentine's Castle" in 1980.
Robert Silverberg. 4 for Dan Blum.
> 9. Born in Lachine, Quebec, he moved with his family to Chicago
> at age 9. This American Jewish writer won the Nobel Prize for
> literature in 1976.
Saul Bellow. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 10. And now to mystery writers. She is the author of several
> books featuring Rina Lazarus, an Orthodox Jewish widow, and
> LAPD cop Peter Decker. Her husband is also a mystery novelist.
> Give their surname.
(Faye and Jonathan) Kellerman. 4 for Joshua.
> * Game 2, Round 8 - Entertainment - "Star Trek" 1990s Style
> Incidentally, the punny connection from one answer in this round
> to the following question was completely accidental; I didn't even
> notice it until retyping the round for posting.
> 1. In the first episode of "Star Trek: Voyager", the Voyager's
> original doctor was killed and had to be replaced by the present
> character, the ship's EMH. What does EMH stand for?
Emergency Medical Hologram. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 2. In Star Trek nomenclature the galaxy is divided into four
> quadrants. Which one """is""" the Voyager stranded in?
Delta. (They got home in the last episode of the series, broadcast
in 2001.) 4 for Dan Blum.
> 3. (Please decode the rot13 only after you are finished with
> question 2.) In "Star Trek" physics, wormholes can provide a
> [connection] between two points in space, but are usually unstable.
> "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" features a wormhole connecting the
> Alpha and Gamma Quadrants, kept stable by an unusual species of
> beings living inside it. Tell what is especially unusual about
> these beings, or tell what they are called in the religion of
> the Bajorans.
They live outside of time as we know it (any reference to unusual
time-related powers was sufficient); the Prophets. 4 for Dan Blum.
And so the accidental pun... from Prophets we go to profits:
> 4. This species is known for its fanatical devotion to financial
> profit. When first introduced on "Star Trek: The Next
> Generation", they were compared to Yankee traders; """today"""
> we see them most often on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine".
> Individuals of the species have such charming names as Quark,
> Nog, Rom, Brunt, and Zek. What is the species?
Ferengi. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
> 5. These people have godlike powers to manipulate space, time,
> and matter. They have appeared on several episodes of both
> "Star Trek: The Next Generation", including the first and
> the last, and on """both""" of the newer "Star Trek" shows.
> The species and all its individuals seem to be called by the
> same name. What is it?
Q. (Since this was written there have been additional new "Star
Trek" shows, and the Q have not appeared on all of them. Or not
yet, anyway.) 4 for Dan Blum and Dan Tilque.
> 6. On "Star Trek: Voyager", the Voyager's first officer and
> a number of other crew members were previously members of what
> rebel organization, first introduced on another "Star Trek" show?
> Its name refers to Earth's World War II era.
The Maquis (introduced on "Star Trek: The Next Generation").
4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
In WW2 "Maquis" was a name for the French Resistance, in turn derived
from the type of land where some of them fought.
> 7. The Voyager's newest crew member is Seven of Nine, who was rescued
> from the control of what enemy people? Individuals belonging to,
> or controlled by, this species on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
> include someone temporarily named Locutus, as well as One of Five,
> later known as Hugh.
Borg. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. This species, now mostly seen on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine",
> built that space station and formerly were military occupiers of
> Bajor. They are devious and pragmatic in the extreme, and their
> governments usually authoritarian. Individuals of the species
> include Dukat, Garak, and Evek. What is the species called?
Cardassians. 4 for Dan Blum.
The best villains "Star Trek" has ever had, I say.
> 9. The Dominion, on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", uses as soldiers
> a species genetically engineered for the purpose, whose members
> are kept loyal by addicting them to a drug called Ketrasil White.
> Individuals of another loyal servant species, such as Weyoun,
> command these soldiers and also serve as the Dominion's diplomats.
> Name *either* species.
Jem-Hadar; Vorta. 3 for Dan Blum.
Incidentally, a recurring Ferengi character, Brunt, and a recurring
Vorta character, Weyoun, were both played by the same actor, Jeffrey
Combs -- on one occasion, both in the same episode. He had a third
recurring role, on "Enterprise", as an Andorian character named Shran,
and also played 5 one-time characters, representing 7 different
species altogether.
> 10. One regular character on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" is of the
> same species as the Founders of the Dominion, so <both answers
> to 9> each treat him with respect despite his loyalty to his
> Federation friends. Name him *or* describe the unusual power
> his species has.
Odo; shape-shifting (anything with "changeling" was also sufficient;
it may not mean the same thing in standard English, but that's what
some characters call him). 4 for Dan Blum.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 2 ROUNDS-> 2 3 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Sci Can Geo Lit Ent THREE
Dan Blum 36 0 28 16 39 103
Dan Tilque 40 4 19 4 12 71
Joshua Kreitzer 8 0 24 20 16 60
Erland Sommarskog -- -- 20 4 0 24
Pete Gayde -- -- 12 -- -- 12
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Mark Brader, Toronto "No victor believes in chance."
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